I suppose the main problem here is that any people seem to think that atheism really means "lack of belief" in any gods (which means that the slimy rhetoric that Dawkins, Dennet, Harris, Hitchens, etc, fervently preach is ultimately achieving its dishonest goal).
Atheism is the firm stance "God does not exist". This is both the traditional and correct definition of atheism. Anything less than that (ie: God may or may not exist, yet I don't think God exists) is agnosticism, coupled with personal biographical statements on one's views on the existence of God. If a person still acts obstinately and decides to redefine this as atheism, then it follows that such an individual is mired in semantical ignorance.
So conversely, the only people that are theists are people that do not have even
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I am pretty sure that that person does not, and never has, existed.
I would hazard a guess that, since we are human, and that we have no proof, we are all basically on a sliding scale of agnosticism.
It's also amusing that many of the posters here seem to think that theists arrive and sustain their belief in God not through reason, but blind faith. Again, theology and large areas of philosophy (as silly as you may think they are) are concerned with arriving and explaining God's existence through logos, reason and logic, not blind, unsubstantiated faith.
For all the "reasoning", "logic", and "logos", it is still a guess. Nothing more. They may not be blind faith, but they are leaps of faith nonetheless. There have been many assertions throughout history that were thought out with the available level of "reason", and "logic" and philosophy that ended up being absloute jokes. Believing in a higher being is fine. I think there are some good arguements for it. Belief in a specific version of god, like the christian god, to be correct =
to me.